| Scientific Name: | Aechmea fasciata |
| Common Name: | silver urn plant, silver vase |
| Family Name: | Bromeliaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Basal, Leathery, Prickly, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Spike, Blue, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), White, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Vase-shaped; leaves in a basal rosette, appearing spiraled on older plants but with no discernible stem, most 30-80cm long x 6-10cm wide, arching to curled around almost full circle, grey-green with silverish-grey bands; flowers in a rosette of pink bracts. | |